Sunday morning Rangers stuff

by Adam J. Morris on Nov 1, 2009 9:31 AM CST

Nothing new out there today really...

Stuff from earlier this week I missed...Richard Durrett asks if Rangers fans would like to see Milton Bradley back. I'd be on board with it, assuming you're giving up little in way of talent and only taking on a few million of his remaining contract. It sounds like, though, the Rangers feel he burned his bridges and aren't interested in him at any price.

And Troy Renck of the Denver Post has a short piece worth checking out on Clint Hurdle being a finalist for the Rangers' hitting coach job.

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I want Milton back

And I really don’t care if the players like Byrd more than him

Go Rice Owls!

by JBImaknee on Nov 1, 2009 9:41 AM CST reply actions

Agree 100%

by Agreen07 on Nov 1, 2009 11:38 AM CST up reply actions

Add me to the open door list

Talent is talent, and I don’t care much for the inmates running the prison. Happiness is winning, not just being ready to win. I have worked for, and hired and assigned, some shaggy bastards in my life and can’t remember even one of them failing the test of performance to get their job done.

"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination." - Andrew Lang (1844-1912) also -

"Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance."
~Ambrose Bierce

by Ed Coffin on Nov 1, 2009 2:54 PM CST up reply actions

You said it perfectly.

"I don't condone steroids or any other type of growth hormones or anything else, but I could care less, and, for the most part, I don't think the fans give a (bleep). The people that care about it are the people that probably don't like baseball," - Jim Leyland

by DJCahill on Nov 1, 2009 7:53 PM CST up reply actions

i wouldn't mind clint hurdle

he’s got some skins on the wall, but he may leave at the moment he’s offered another managerial job.

A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.

by NothinG on Nov 1, 2009 9:53 AM CST reply actions

I don't know that anyone will be offering him

a managerial job in the near future, considering the Rockies were 18-28 with him last year and 74-42 without him.

by MikeEl on Nov 1, 2009 9:59 AM CST up reply actions

Of the guys on that list

I think Clint Hurdle is the best of the the bunch.

by MikeEl on Nov 1, 2009 9:55 AM CST reply actions

Wow AJM... you missed this

Revo retired

The 2009 Texas Rangers offense: sigh...

by Kinslerhomer on Nov 1, 2009 9:58 AM CST reply actions

Wow

Didn’t see that.

It will get its own item.

by Adam J. Morris on Nov 1, 2009 10:03 AM CST up reply actions

wow

i disagreed with most of what he said, but like BBTiA said, it’s going to be one less person reporting on the Rangers, which isn’t a good thing – like him or not.

A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.

by NothinG on Nov 1, 2009 10:04 AM CST up reply actions

Does this have anything to do with

Mel Didier getting fired?

by MikeEl on Nov 1, 2009 10:08 AM CST up reply actions

Of course it does

by oc on Nov 1, 2009 12:58 PM CST up reply actions

It's part of Obama's plan to weed out the old and useless

"...he wasn’t a good hitter, just a good middle of the order bat that hit a lot of homers." - NYTXFAN

by LSJ on Nov 1, 2009 5:28 PM CST up reply actions

I wouldn't mind Milton back

but I think he ends up somewhere else. With GMJ making a fuss in Anaheim, I find myself wondering if he gets traded for Milton.

by MikeEl on Nov 1, 2009 10:00 AM CST reply actions

I don't think Anaheim wants Bradley

This is the team that suspended Jose Guillen in the middle of a pennant race.

I can’t imagine they’d want anything to do with him.

by Adam J. Morris on Nov 1, 2009 10:04 AM CST up reply actions

Forgot about that

I guess I don’t really see Scioscia putting up with Milton either.

by MikeEl on Nov 1, 2009 10:08 AM CST up reply actions

milton dhing in 120 games this next season for us

would be beautiful.

by Agreen07 on Nov 1, 2009 11:39 AM CST reply actions

Concur...

I want to see the Rangers win. I could care less how he fits in with the team or if he’s a leader like Byrd.

I want production. Like the offensive production he had in ’08 for this team.

"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."-Socrates

by slc ranger on Nov 1, 2009 11:45 AM CST up reply actions

You guys

act like you think that the way players go about accomplishing their results is as dry and calculating as the way their results can be “saber” -ed.
If Bradley behaves and performs like he did in ’08, he would be an asset. If behaves or performs like he did for the Cubs, forget it.
I think the Rangers might have had their stars aligned just perfectly in ’08.

by mcgee48c on Nov 1, 2009 11:54 AM CST reply actions

Perhaps

Milton performed better here because he was under Ron’s charge. I mean, Ron is supposed to be this Great Human Communicator and Leader of Men… so maybe he really did make the difference in keeping Bradley on a leash in 2008.

Or perhaps that’s total horseshit, we just did catch lighting in a bottle in 2008 and Ron is as useless as I think he is, but either way Bradley is the type of talent I’d feel comfortable trying to catch lighting with again. He’s not Sosa or Jones, he’s actually good at baseball – and we need more hitters that are good at baseball, bottom line.

And another point, so I won’t have to make a separate comment: if our clubhouse really can’t handle taking Milton back to improve the team, we need to get a new clubhouse that isn’t filled with oversensitive pansies.

"...he wasn’t a good hitter, just a good middle of the order bat that hit a lot of homers." - NYTXFAN

by LSJ on Nov 1, 2009 5:23 PM CST up reply actions

Except if he behaves like he did with the Cubs

he still leads the Rangers in OBP. Compared to some of the other crap we have seen here, that ain’t all bad.

by DJCahill on Nov 1, 2009 7:54 PM CST up reply actions

Bradley

I love the way he approaches the game, or at least the way he approached it when he was here. But the guy is injured too damn much and I’m tired of the Rangers having guys like that. Bring in someone who’s a better bet to play everyday, or go with a young guy.

613photo

by Black Francis on Nov 1, 2009 12:20 PM CST reply actions